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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is Tahera Qutbuddin. Dr Tahera Qutbuddin, a professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Chicago, has become the first person of Indian-origin to win the 15th Sheikh Zyed Book Award. The award is considered to be the Nobel Prize of the Arab world.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dr Tahera Qutbuddin became the first person of Indian-origin to win the 15th Sheikh Zayed Book Award. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is considered to be the Nobel Prize of the Arab world. She was awarded for her latest book, “Arabic Oration – Art and Function” published by Brill Academic Publishers of Leiden in 2019.

Detailed explanation-3: -Through the Swedish Academy’s decision this year the Nobel Prize in Literature has for the first time been awarded to an Egyptian. Naguib Mahfouz was born and lives in Cairo. He is also the first literary Nobel Prizewinner with Arabic as his native tongue.